{"id":5817,"date":"2021-08-07T00:25:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/?p=5817"},"modified":"2021-08-07T00:25:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T16:25:54","slug":"noraini-ahmad-resigns-as-higher-education-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/2021\/08\/07\/noraini-ahmad-resigns-as-higher-education-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Noraini Ahmad resigns as Higher Education Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">KUALA LUMPUR: Parit Sulong MP cum Wanita UMNO chief Datuk Seri Dr Noraini Ahmad today announced her resignation as Minister of Higher Education with immediate effect.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">In a statement, she said the resignation announcement was made following UMNO Supreme Council\u2019s decision on Aug 3 to withdraw its support for the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government and Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe decision of the party will be implemented when the Parliament sits (next month),\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Noraini, however, said that her efforts to help tackle the COVID-19 pandemic would continue even if she was no longer in the government.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cI would like to thank all quarters, especially the Higher Education Ministry and its stakeholders that have helped me in discharging my duties,\u201d she said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Two days ago, Lenggong MP Datuk Seri Shamsul Anuar Nasarah resigned as Energy and Natural Resources Minister.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8212; BERNAMA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR: Parit Sulong MP cum Wanita UMNO chief Datuk Seri Dr Noraini Ahmad today announced her resignation as Minister of Higher Education with immediate effect. In a statement, she said the resignation announcement was made following UMNO Supreme Council\u2019s decision on Aug 3 to withdraw its support for the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5818,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5819,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5817\/revisions\/5819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jesseltontimes.com\/wpmarch2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}